Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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The point I am making is that the issue along the Border underlines the fact that this is wide open to abuse. This is going on under our noses. These are huge operations involving massive sheds and articulated lorries travelling around the country. Nobody appears to be doing anything significant about it. We have heard for the last number of years that there is a joint approach north and south of the Border involving the Revenue Commissioners and the customs service in Britain, but in the meantime local authorities are experiencing all of this stuff being dumped yet the official mechanism for dealing with illegal movements of waste is reliance on sending out a letter.